The Burgess Shale arthropod Mollisonia (M. sinica new species): New occurrence from the Middle Cambrian Kaili fauna of Southwest China

Journal of Paleontology

Volumn 76, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 1106-1108

  Zhang, Xingliang ^a   Zhao, Yuanlong ^b   Yang, Ruidong ^b   Shu, Degan ^a  

^a NORTHWEST UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b GUIZHOU UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTHROPODA; MOLLISONIA SINICA;

EID: 0036855563     PISSN: 00223360     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/s0022336000057917     Document Type: Note

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